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I answered that I thought he would never smile again.
He said:"I thought you wanted to get up at six?""So I did," I answered; "why didn't you wake me?""How could I wake you, when you didn't wake me?" he retorted.
"Right it is," we answered; and with Harris at the sculls and I at the tiller-lines, and Montmorency, unhappy and deeply suspicious, in the prow, out we shot on to the waters which, for a fortnight, were to be our home.
"No," I answered, "I don't.
This seemed to me to be going too far, and I said so to Harris; but he answered:"Not a bit of it.
"Wallingford lock!" they answered.
"Well, it's an extraordinary thing, Tom," answered the other; "but I'm blest if there isn't a man in my bed, too!""What are you going to do?" asked George's father.
Of course, this conduct made the force only more distrustful of him than ever, and they would come and rout him out and ask him what he was doing there; and when he answered, "Nothing," he had merely come out for a stroll (it was then four o'clock in the morning), they looked as though they did not believe him, and two plain-clothes constables came home with him to see if he really did live where he had said he did.
I answered that I did remember it.
"Only four," answered George.
"But you don't try," they answered.
"Well, it's a most remarkable thing - most remarkable," answered the stolid stranger, laughing; "because, as a matter of fact, you are quite right.
"Yes it's almost a pity we've made up our minds to stick to this boat," answered Harris; and then there was silence for a while.
Gregor answered to both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting long pauses between each, individual word.
She answered him with subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's fainted, but she's better now.
"I mean just what I said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a straight line towards the man.
"Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it.
"His majesty may have more experienced troops than the continentals," answered the host fearfully, "but the Americans have met with distinguished success."
"General Stark took the Germans into custody," she answered, compressing her lip; "may not General Gates think the British too dangerous to go at large?""Oh! they were Germans, as you say," cried the colonel, excessively vexed at the necessity of explaining at all; "mere mercenary troops; but when the really British regiments come in question, you will see a very different result."
"He lives somewhere among the niggers to the south," answered the peddler, abruptly.
Some bunches of ribbons fell from the hands of Birch; his countenance changed instantly, losing its keen expression in intent meaning, as he answered slowly, "It is some time since the rig'lar cavalry were out, and I saw some of De Lancey's men cleaning their arms, as I passed their quarters; it would be no wonder if they took the scent soon, for the Virginia horse are low in the county."
Frances quickly answered, "And is not Henry loyal to his king?""Come, come," said Miss Peyton, "no difference of opinion about the colonel - he is a favorite of mine."
Harvey heard him, and continued standing for some time in moody silence; but the question being repeated, he answered with a slight tremor in his voice,-"He fails fast; old age and hardships will do their work."
"Surely, sir," cried the father, losing sight of delicacy in apprehension for his child, "you will keep secret the discovery which your being in my house has enabled you to make?"Harper turned quickly to the speaker, and then, losing the sternness which had begun to gather on his countenance, he answered mildly, "I have learned nothing in your family, sir, of which I was ignorant before; but your son is safer from my knowledge of his visit than he would be without it."
"My business will be confined to a few questions, which, if freely answered, will instantly remove us from your dwelling."
"You have but little to apprehend from his character," answered the dragoon dryly.
The dragoon heard her politely, and apparently with commiseration; but willing to avoid useless and embarrassing petitions, he answered mildly,-"I am not the commander of the party, madam; Major Dunwoodie will decide what must be done with your brother; at all events he will receive nothing but kind and gentle treatment."
"Immediately, madam," answered the dragoon, withdrawing his admiring gaze from the person of Frances.
The trumpets of the Virginians now sounded long and lively; they were answered by a strain from the party in ambush that went to the hearts of their enemies.
Is there much business there, sir?""Indeed," answered Henry, accepting the offer of the surgeon to assist in removing his coat, "'tis a stirring time."
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